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The Sopranos

Alan Warner

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English
Vintage
02 July 1999
Now a stage musical, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted by Lee Hall (Billy Elliott, War Horse) and directed by Vicky Featherstone (Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre)

NOW A SELL-OUT PLAY- OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR

The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. And it's an important day for The Sopranos - Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Amanda Konky and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being the top priorities. Then it's time to lose that competition - lose, because a nuclear sub has just anchored in the bay and, tonight, the Man Trap disco will be full of submariners on shore-leave. There is no time for delays. . .

But after the fifth bottle of alco-pop up the back of the bus it's clear that all is not going to plan, for anyone. The Sopranos are never going to be the same.

'Compassionate and riotously funny. It is a long time since I read a novel which had me rocking with laughter' -The Times
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   234g
ISBN:   9780099268741
ISBN 10:   0099268744
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alan Warner is the author of six other novels- Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Reviews for The Sopranos

This quirky novel follows the progress of a group of convent girls let loose in Edinburgh for the day before their school choir competition (imagine St Trinian's, but with added 1990s temptations such as body-piercing and tequila). The girls' voices are fresh, funny and distinctive and you get a real sense of what it feels like to be embarking on adult life at the tail end of the century. (Kirkus UK)


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